Swap Command and Alt keys on USB keyboard
Swap Command and Alt keys on USB keyboard Jun 01, '11 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous Today I ruined my silver Apple keyboard by spilling coffee on it and had to switch back to an old PC keyboard with a German layout. Which is a fine keyboard with one very annoying attribute: the Control (Windows) and Alt keys are swapped, the bottom keys are from left to right: Ctrl - Windows(Command) - Alt - Space. It can drive you crazy. So I searched for a solution but it was not as obvious as I had expected. With Snow Leopard the mapping can be changed via System Preferences » Keyboard , there choose 'Modifier keys...' and in the Dialog remap Alt (Option) and Command. However, some applications, like Eclipse, do not get these changes. So, I would like to swap the modifiers further down at the input driver level. There are descriptions how to modify AppleUSBKeyboard.kext . That seems to be outdated since I can not find AppleUSBKeyboard.kext on S